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[REQ] App that reports read sms

Looking for an sms app that can report back to me when a message i sent has been read by the receiver. Need this for work been looking all day and havent found it.
Handcent says its does this but everyone giving feedback on that app are saying horrible things about missing text/not receiving text. I installed this and tried it sending about 30 text and 2 werent received until like 10 minutes later
Gosms - not sure if it does have this capability looked at the details of what this app does and didnt mentioned it did.
smspop up- doesnt do it just gives a delivery report. Which is understandable since this is just to make your sms pop up.
theres another one cant remember the name of it but the recipient has to have the app installed as well and has to be sent from that app.
Anyway to make the stock app do this?
**Mod's Delete if you want or merge but i searched over and over on this site and other sites and did not find the answer. Posted on here instead of general android app because this is the phone i use so im always looking at this thread.

Just use Kik messenger and get all your friends to join. It is live messaging and shows when messages are read. Just a thought, not exactly what you wanted as it doesn't work for SMS. A cool thing is it also tells you if they are typing.
Not sure if Handcent does that or not.

ssconceptz said:
Just use Kik messenger and get all your friends to join. It is live messaging and shows when messages are read. Just a thought, not exactly what you wanted as it doesn't work for SMS. A cool thing is it also tells you if they are typing.
Not sure if Handcent does that or not.
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the thing is i need that feature for the text i send to coworkers.

i use chomp sms and it has read notifications fully integrated and working
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It won't work with normal texts. Kik/all those other apps are able to show when messages are read because they're internet-based.

Only certain carriers allow it. Not sprint .
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veritasaequita said:
i use chomp sms and it has read notifications fully integrated and working
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gonna take a look at that app. does it have issues with not receiving or taking too long to receive a text.
Edit: looked at the feedback and many complaining about not receiving text and many not being able to send messages but I guess ymmv
Kurupt1 said:
Only certain carriers allow it. Not sprint .
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sprint doesn't allow what?

[Q] is there a way to get hangout on lockscreen like text?

Is there any way to get Google hangouts to pop up on the lockscreen when you get a text the same way the stock text message works? Like the circle with the message icon and number.
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No one knows a mod?
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I would also like to see this. Just updated to 4.3 on Verizon S3 and it doesn't work with Hangouts. The driving mode also doesn't read the text since it's in Hangouts.

Hangouts just began to be integrated with SMS... give it some time to make it the go-to feature for texting, etc. Until then, you have a bunch of apps that integrates fully into the original Messaging app like Halo, Popup Notifier, Textra, Handcent, and even Facebook Messenger. I'm sure Hangouts will reach this point but until then, try other apps.

Facebook messenger no longer does SMS AFAIK. That was taken out. Hangouts is cool, especially for group messaging, but I personally couldn't stand it being white. Luckily dark horse makes inverted apps.
One of my main gripes with hangouts as well as most other SMS apps is when your phone doesn't have service or in airplane mode...when you restore service the text messages you receive aren't timestamped properly. It stamps them like you just received them...and not when they actually were sent.
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Bodoct said:
Is there any way to get Google hangouts to pop up on the lockscreen when you get a text the same way the stock text message works? Like the circle with the message icon and number.
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Install a 3rd party application to manage notifications and make sure you can enable notifications on the lock screen.

Messaging App Lag

Just switched to the LG G3. The messaging app lags to the point of being frozen most of the time. I have many messages in the app (500+), maybe that's part of the reason. Yet it's lagging like crazy... To the point of my thinking of ditching the phone altogether.
Can anyone please help how to fix this?
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anshkhanna said:
Can anyone please help how to fix this?
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Use another messaging app? Textra, EvolveSMS, you name it

Same here. Ridiculously laggy.

maybe save attachments to internal instead of external.
and delete OLD messages.

What's the best third party messaging app?
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anshkhanna said:
What's the best third party messaging app?
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Hangouts does it for me... If you can call google third party

radeonxt said:
maybe save attachments to internal instead of external.
and delete OLD messages.
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No, even with one message containing a single character it lags like crazy...

Good text app?

Recently left handcent due to ads and tired of the stock messaging app. What are you guys using?

Textra is my favorite

jspsuperman said:
Textra is my favorite
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Your response prompted me to try it out. Really like what I'm seeing and will probably be using it for a while.

What is it that you don't like about Google hangouts? You can setup a Google voice number and text using that #, make wifi or data calls using for google voice number. Google hangouts does everything
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liquidraven said:
Recently left handcent due to ads and tired of the stock messaging app. What are you guys using?
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Textra is the best app out there IMO. Send and receives pictures like a phone is supposed to (actually shows each picture as opposed to a Slideshow) has delay sending, and many other features. Fair warning though they are moving from a free app to paid. But totally worth it in every way.
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Textra or Google Messenger I think are the two best.
I ended up sticking with Google Messenger because Textra seemed to have trouble with different DPI's which I found a little weird. I think it has a few extra features that make it better the GM if that's not an issue for you.

Agreed. Textra is awesome. I love using the "giphy" attachments.

Though I'm content with the stock messaging app, if I wasn't using it I'd be used Google Messenger. It's nice and clean and I actually like its simplicity

EvolveSMS is my choice...

evolvesms
never_more said:
EvolveSMS is my choice...
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I tried evolvesms on my Note 4 which is running 5.01 but it seems to freeze on the conversation list page. Have you had this problem?

Textra probably is the best but there are a ton of bug reports everyday

Messenger app.

Can anyone recommend a text messaging app that supports picture messages on Android wear and supports individualized notifications for texts on your phone?
Thanks Jason

Easy Google messenger...?
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Textra works too. You can also view the whole thread as well.

melvinaury said:
Easy Google messenger...?
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How do you set different notification sounds for different contacts with Google messenger?